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Crooked Road tells the tale of how the Alaska Highway was built during World War II. David Remley chronicles how Americans and Canadians mapped and built the highway under the 1942 authorization of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who ordered its construction for the joint defense of the United States and Canada. Crooked Road draws upon archival images and oral histories from those who lived in the prior unpaved wilderness and those who regularly drive on the highway today, and ultimately offers a fascinating historical account of the expansion of the American landscape.
Price: £19.95
Pages: 267
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Imprint: University of Alaska Press
Publication Date:
15 November 2008
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781602230378
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
"Remley assesses the trouble converting the North into ‘a place of industrial profit and progress’ even though it perpetuates the exploitative
intentions of those who came far earlier to open the area. First Nations groups experienced the most painful transition. . . . Remley eloquently elaborates how history is more than the dead. Where the highway gives access to an area of surviving material culture of past life, a religious awe can be experienced, as Remley has known during several revisits.”
intentions of those who came far earlier to open the area. First Nations groups experienced the most painful transition. . . . Remley eloquently elaborates how history is more than the dead. Where the highway gives access to an area of surviving material culture of past life, a religious awe can be experienced, as Remley has known during several revisits.”
David Remley, a retired teacher, is now a full-time writer based in New Mexico.
Part 1
1 The North Needs Your Young
2 The Road Is Going to Be Built
3 The Defense of Alaska Is the Defense of Canada
4 Cornmeal Cooked with Tallow
5 Continuation
6 The Quiet of My Little Station Was Shattered
7 Long Ways from Home
8 Elliott's Fleet and Parker's Navy
9 Ruffles and Flourishes
Part 2
10 Hard as Hell to Get To
11 Flowers for the Wedding
12 How Far Is It to Lower Post?
13 The Specter of American Domination
14 Grave Decisions
15 Gems for the Crown
Part 3
16 Too Much Too Soon
17 All-Weather Road
18 Something in the Nature of This Clay
19 Throw a Barl Out
20 They Can Have It for the Asking
21 Always on Their Way
22 Just Like Cuttin' Grass
Notes
Index